Archives - 01 November 2013, Friday

We chose to revert the behavior because it added a major backward incompatibility that made harder to have an upgrade path without major changes in the application code. Also we consider the older behavior a bug since it behaves differently from all the others scope methods when they ...

The power of Nginx – Phusion Passenger combines Meteor with the increasingly popular Nginx web server. By combining them, Nginx will offload Meteor from serving static assets . This also adds a buffering reverse proxy layer which provides I/O security and protects Meteor against inval...

is a fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js. It works by integrating into Apache and Nginx and turning them into a fully-featured application server. It has high-profile users such as New York Times, AirBnB, Juniper, Motorola, etc, and comes wit...

Phusion Passenger 4.0.23 released, open sources Meteor framework support Posted by FooBarWidget on November 01, 2013 — 0 comments Phusion Passenger 4.0.23 not only fixes a number of bugs, but also open sources support for the Meteor framework . Before, Meteor support was Enterprise-on...

As a product manager, a large part of my time is spent writing and enhancing user stories. Often, I worry if I’ve got enough information in my stories. Then, later I wonder how much time I’ve wasted by adding unnecessary details. Below are my thoughts on how I can tell if a story is c...

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October 29th, 2013 FFI is over, TryTo customize errors, DevOps for devs, Tips for the Asset Pipeline, Ruby Constant Resolution, How to setup EMACS for Ruby dev on OS X. October 25th, 2013 Better delegation with the casting gem, autoprefixer for the Rails asset pipeline, a different ap...

The second and older syntax, known as the indented syntax (or sometimes just “Sass”), provides a more concise way of writing CSS. It uses indentation rather than brackets to indicate nesting of selectors, and newlines rather than semicolons to separate properties. Some people find thi...

The power of Nginx – Phusion Passenger combines Meteor with the increasingly popular Nginx web server. By combining them, Nginx will offload Meteor from serving static assets . This also adds a buffering reverse proxy layer which provides I/O security and protects Meteor against inval...

The power of Nginx – Phusion Passenger combines Meteor with the increasingly popular Nginx web server. By combining them, Nginx will offload Meteor from serving static assets . This also adds a buffering reverse proxy layer which provides I/O security and protects Meteor against inval...

If you have an attribute that needs to be saved to the database as an object, and retrieved as the same object, then specify the name of that attribute using this method and it will be handled automatically. The serialization is done through YAML . If class_name is specified, the seri...

A Practical Guide to Remote User Testing Lydia Damon October 31, 2013 user testing design As designers, we know that we should be testing our products all the time, but toward the end of a project, we often prioritize production over research. When the post-it and whiteboard days are ...

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Not Quite Flat Design Corey Haggard October 24, 2013 design The design industry sure does see it's changes in the course of a year. Remember the Web 2.0 days? Those were the days of shiny buttons, glossy text, and tight line heights. Looking back on those designs now, it makes you won...

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The power of Nginx – Phusion Passenger combines Meteor with the increasingly popular Nginx web server. By combining them, Nginx will offload Meteor from serving static assets . This also adds a buffering reverse proxy layer which provides I/O security and protects Meteor against inval...

I started out with blob detection, which simply means detecting, locating and measuring an object in an image. A really simple way of doing something like that (without having to worry about object textures and creepy stuff like that), is to use color to identify blobs. In this articl...

Reade Harris September 06, 2012 factories factory girl testing Have you ever added a seemingly innocent validation to a model, like so: class User < ActiveRecord::Base validates_presence_of :first_name end And then had this happen?: $ rake spec If you're using FactoryGirl , this can o...

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Simple Smalltalk/Seaside Blog - Mark Aufflick 2007-03-18T22:00:00+00:00 Simple Smalltalk/Seaside Blog. Given my current business, I'm unlikely to build a new site using... Raving Bytes: Smalltalk and Seaside part 4. 2013-01-26T13:19:00+00:00 Post 4 is the last post from the series abo...

The power of Nginx – Phusion Passenger combines Meteor with the increasingly popular Nginx web server. By combining them, Nginx will offload Meteor from serving static assets . This also adds a buffering reverse proxy layer which provides I/O security and protects Meteor against inval...

Memory. More processes implies a higher memory usage. If too much memory is used then the machine will hit swap, which slows everything down. You should only have as many processes as memory limits comfortably allow. Threads use less memory, so prefer threads when possible. You can cr...